Armond Hairapetian

When you walk through the Hairapetian Graduate Student Center, in the
Electrical Engineering department, you see rows of workspaces that are
new, quiet, and private.

The center is the kind of setting engineering students need for their
periods of intense study and exchange of ideas. The old center, used
extensively by Dr. Hairapetian, a three-time electrical engineering
alumnus, (BS '87, MS '88, and PhD '93), was on its last legs.

"It's important to have an environment in which students can gather and
talk to each other," noted Hairapetian. "Making a gift to pay for the
renovation is a good investment in the future. UCLA is a place that
produces talented engineers, and for the state to stay competitive, you
need to attract great students to produce top-notch engineers."

Alongside this UCLA legacy stands his ground-breaking engineering
inventions. Dr. Hairapetian developed the world's fi rst 10Gbit/sec
transceivers in CMOS. These products are now the industry's benchmark
and are used in the majority of 10G optical transmission systems.

Dr. Hairapetian has more than 15 years of technical and general
management experience in the area of analog, RF and mixed-signal
integrated circuits. He was the General Manager of the optical products
division of Broadcom Corporation, the leading supplier of 10G
transceiver ICs for optical communications.

Armond was the co-founder and CEO of NewPort Communications where he led
the engineering effort in developing the world's fi rst OC-48 and
OC-192 transceivers in CMOS, and the ultimate sale of the company to
Broadcom in August 2000 for approximately $1.2 billion.

Currently, Dr. Hairapetian is Vice President and Entrepreneur in
Residence of Miramar Venture Partners, serves as CEO and is on the Board
of Starport Systems, a Miramar portfolio company.